Educators Consider Impact of Supreme Court Ruling on Teaching Health Professionals
<p>Educators across UCSF are considering the implications of the newly affirmed health care law on teaching future pharmacists, doctors, nurses and dentists.</p>
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Timeline of Health Care Law
<p>This timeline reflects the highlights over the past three years that culminates with the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.</p>
UCSF Takes Giant Leap Toward Improved Patient Safety, Care With Electronic Health Records
<p>UCSF Medical Center has taken a major step forward in advancing patient safety and quality of care by implementing one of the most comprehensive electronic health records systems nationally.</p>
Moving Toward a National Health Record System
<p>UCSF Medical Center's recent adoption of a new electronic health record system, not only advances patient safety, it enables UCSF to comply with a federal mandate requiring all health providers and hospitals to shift to electronic medical records as part of national health care reform.</p>
UCSF Community Awaits U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Health Care Law
<p>UCSF health care professionals and policy experts are awaiting the highly anticipated U.S. Supreme Court ruling on President Obama’s health care law, which will come on the its final day in session on Thursday.</p>
Preventing or Better Managing Diabetes May Prevent Cognitive Decline, According to UCSF Study
Preventing diabetes or delaying its onset has been thought to stave off cognitive decline -- a connection strongly supported by the results of a 9-year study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Hepatitis: UCSF and San Francisco at Ground Zero
<p>Viral hepatitis chronically infects between 3.5 and 5.2 million people in the U.S. and more than 30,000 in San Francisco, alone — but only about one in three people who are infected know it, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.</p>
Hepatitis C: Urgency to Fight Viral Foe Grows in the Suburbs and on the Streets
<p>At the edge of a San Francisco neighborhood that has been riddled with drug addiction for decades, UCSF epidemiologist Kimberly Page, PhD, MPS, leads a research team that provides outreach, screening and prevention programs for drug users, those who are especially vulnerable to hepatitis C infection.</p>
Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer Among Asian Americans
<p>Liver cancer is expected to become more common in the United States in coming years. “It’s deadly and it’s preventable,” says UCSF physician and researcher Tung Nguyen, MD.</p>
UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay Reaches Fundraising Milestone
The fundraising campaign to build the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay achieved a major milestone this month, surpassing the $400 million mark in philanthropic gifts. This brings the campaign more than two-thirds of the way to its $600 million goal.
California Physicians Unprepared for Electronic Health Record Regulations, According to UCSF Report
Electronic health records (EHRs) are used widely by California physicians, but many of their systems are not designed to meet new federal standards aimed at improving the quality of health care, according to a report from UCSF researchers.
Consortium of Scientists Map the Human Body's Bacterial Ecosystem
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes participated in the national Human Microbiome Project, which used groundbreaking methods to vastly improve the understanding of bacteria that reside in and on the human body.
Radiation Exposure From Medical Imaging Has Increased Even at HMOs
A study led by researchers at UCSF and Group Health Research Institute, shows that medical imaging is increasing even in health maintenance organization systems (HMOs), which don’t have a financial incentive to conduct them.
Breast Cancer Risk Can Be Lowered By Avoiding Unnecessary Medical Imaging
The single thing that a woman can do to lower her risk of breast cancer is to avoid unnecessary medical imaging, says Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD, a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging, epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF, who contributed to a new Institute of Medicine report.